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Is it internal? I visited linmodems.org and there are no drivers it seems for any USR modems. You may be able to get a Rockwell based driver to work as there has been some talk that the USR's are based on them. Although I've not tried this yet.

I had an idea of mounting in read/write so that I could create the directory and a zero byte file. That would stop the error generating I think.

The only thing is I don't know how to mount it. It's all ROM or RAM based and assume all the directory config such as the OS will be in ROM, meaning I'll not be able to do it?

Or can I? Hmmmmmmm

I re-downloaded the zip file from their website, as it didn't download properly.

I now have all the files, and I have to jump on the computer shortly so that I can attempt to compile etc.

Will keep you informed of what happens next!

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I'm assuming your using the mdk-kdm display manager when you attempt to login? I had this problem too when I upgraded to KDE 3.4 on MDK 10.1.

There are some threads on this, but what you could do temporarily, is change from mdk-kdm to xdm and you would be able to login as normal.

If you wanted to fix the mdk-kdm issue, then the threads I saw mentioned doing this:

Remove mdkkdm

Remove kdekdm (this will remove dependencies, so make a note and reinstall later (not kdekdm though).

Install mdkkdm again

Then you can use mdkkdm to login again as normal. Or, just use the xdm instead, depends which you like the most!

Hope this helps.

I noticed your search line above your name servers. I don't have anything similar on my config.

It could be that it takes a while as it's attempting to connect to what you have here. Try editing the file (resolv.conf) and placing a # at the beginning of the search woh.rr.com, and see if that makes a difference?

I guess this was added when you configured the network?

I've just checked, and my DVD was 2.2GB!!!! So I was probably alright!

Never mind, I have the bigger releases coming shortly :P

Currently I have 3 machines, and will update to the releases I have just bought. Does licensing work the same way for these editions, eg: one copy per machine. I'm thinking about when I want to install on more machines you see.

I know the free download would be OK to hold one media set and install onto many machines, but wondered if it worked differently for the purchased releases.

Yep, that's how you'll do the partitions. The FAT32 one with Windows, the rest with the installer.

The Home drive is where you're likely to hold data, so if you think you'll store 1GB there, then it's OK to size as that. Then anything else you can drop in the FAT32 partition later.

The bigger the root drive, the more space you have for installing any apps in.

I personally haven't attempted with only 1CD, I used all 3.

When I installed MDK 10.0 OE on a machine I have, the sound wouldn't work. I since found that when I enable it in KDE, it errors.

I downloaded the drivers from the Realtek site, enabled sound within KDE.

The instructions then say to run the following commands:

./configure
make
make install
./snddevices

I have well over the required kernel for the driver (kernel-2.6.3-7mdk), so this is OK. The only command I can't seem to get to work is the ./configure (there is no configure file in the directory where I extracted the driver).

Any ideas on what I can do to configure, or would I be better updating the kernel to a later version to resolve the sound issue?

Home just stores what you want to put there. It's format is:

/home/username (whatever you set your username as).

If you have additional users, they will appear here too.

FAT32 does have a limit yes, and although you can create larger, it's prob not a good idea. With Linux, you cannot write to NTFS partitions without special apps, although this is likely to cause data integrity problems.

You can always create more than one partition to spread how the FAT32 data is, instead of making the biggest single partition. Create as many as you like from the 40GB shared for Linux/Windows, format with Windows prior to installing Linux.

You can right click the desktop and click Create New/File/Link to Application.

The third tab has the options for setting where you installed Firefox. For the first tab, you can click the big icon, and then browse to the firefox/icons directory and choose one from here.

The partitions can be created by Linux when you install. You don't need to worry about this before loading Linux.

If you want to share data with Windows, then the partition for both OS's to see should be FAT32. Probably best to set this before you install Linux.

For Linux, set the partition to EXT3.

The reason for having /, Home and Swap, is that if you ever upgrade/rebuild, you can leave Home and therefore don't lose any data. You can partition even more than this if you really wanted to! For example /usr partition, and so on.

The swap file is normally double your memory, but no more than 500MB. You won't use swap any more than this.

Hope this helps!

Do you have the connection settings so that you can configure it manually?

I have done a google search and found the following info:

edit /etc/lilo.conf and change devfs=mount to devfs=nomount , save, run lilo, make sure udev is enabled (chkconfig udev on), reboot.

Does that help?

Cool thanks for that.

I have managed to do it. Many thanks. My initial problem I think was the *.* I was using at the end, because this was limiting it to files.

I'm sure this will be a real easy one!

Basically, I downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird and extracted to:

/home/ian/documents/downloads/mozilla/thunderbird

What I want to do is move it to the following location:

/usr/local/mozilla/thunderbird

When I use Konqueror, I don't have the rights, because it needs to be root access. I have tried the following command:

cp /home/ian/documents/downloads/mozilla/thunderbird/*.* /usr/local/mozilla/thunderbird

when running as superuser. But it only seems to copy the files. How can I get it to copy all the subdirectories within thunderbird also. Is there an alternative command?

Have you checked /var/log/boot.log to see if it mentions anything in there?

I know this probably isn't quite Linux in the normal sense, but wondered if someone might be able to help if they have had experience with them.

My hardware firewall, runs Linux Coldfire.

If I use Windows on my machine, there's no problems whatsoever. If however, I boot and use Linux, I then get the following error message on the firewall:

May 08 16:44:14 boa[31]: Error opening /home/httpd/not_really_there/favicon.ico for 10.1.1.3: No such file or directory

I normally configure by browser, but I opened a telnet connection, and found that the directory "not_really_there" doesn't exist, and of course, neither does the file "favicon.ico".

I'm wondering how I could get rid of the error message. I know I could just ignore it, but there are so many errors logged, it makes sense to clear it, so that I can monitor the more "interesting" stuff.

OK, I hadn't noticed it before, so I wondered how it got there!!

Many thanks for your reply.

You know what, I think I found the problem.

First of all I figured I would reconfigure my IP config to see if this would help. This didn't really do too much, but it did add the following to my loop back ip in /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 ianlinux localhost

Previously it read the IP with just localhost, so I think my missing name could have contributed to it a little.

I then remembered that my firewall can be a bit flaky. I have a hardware firewall which runs Linux Coldfire. It's OK when you configure it from a hard reset. But if you change anything IP related (such as the DNS servers I did the other day), then it can generate errors in the log which effects network performance.

So I reset it, configured from scratch as it should be, and I'm now back to normal!!! Bizarre one hey! :P

No, not changed anything. I noticed an xprint service that wasn't there before. I've also disabled bluetooth services as I'm not using them, but it doesn't really seem to have helped.

I was just happily using the system, and then it started going really slow!

RAM has 816MB free.

Processor load is low, around 30 percent peak from what I see in KDE System Guard right now.

I don't have any other desktops installed, but it's odd how it has started to take so long to boot when I turn the machine on.

Hi, still have problems even now.

The system boots, but really slowly. The login process to KDE takes a long time to process.

I was just using my system, and then it suddenly changed. Also, has anyone info on what the "nobody" login is? It's a hidden user I just found.

Cool, excellent, thanks for that! I knew I'd seen it somewhere.

Gonna reboot now see if that helps sort my session out.

I have found a user named "nobody" on my system. I've no idea how this got here. How can I remove it? Why would it have appeared?

Please help!